For Some Other Reason

Description

Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan’s collaboration began in 2015, when Mike and bandmates Elliott Kozel, Phil Mahlstadt, and Michael Sienkowski decamped to San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone after recording Turkey, with the intention of turning a handful of riffs and ideas into a full album. After listening back to the songs, Mike Krol realized that most of them weren’t in the right key for his voice. So, he put them aside to deal with later, and eventually lost interest in them. In 2020, stuck indoors during the pandemic, Mike rediscovered the tracks on an old hard drive and decided to take the time to try to fix them. He sent the tracks to Mac McCaughan, inviting him to write lyrics to sing over his instrumentals and give them a second life. Mac refused, then changed his mind. A few days later, three songs arrived with completed lyrics and the iconic Mac McCaughan singing on them.